Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Answer for Wightman Road from Burghley Road N8 0QG
Spotted this on a satellite image of Burghley Road, Turnpike Lane. Basically a triangular diversion for local traffic, which would return Wightman Road as a residential road equal to any other on the ladder.
Or simply how much flow would a 'local traffic only' sign reduce?
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Where and how would it work Matt?
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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A bit like Ken Livingstone's community zones, Wightman would remain two way in sections, with two feed roads and one return road.
In a scenario, Warham and Mattison would feed Pemberton. It is at least interesting to see what is already available across Haringey.
Burghley Road may not provide an ultimate solution, but worth looking at systems that are available and their impact.
Case studies may also support different arguments for intervention.
A repeat of the same intervention on the ladder would maintain legibility or familiarity, while providing local vehicular access.
My observation is that the extremes of traffic that affect the Ladder are during peak hour periods particularly in the evenings.
How do we address this surge, and what journeys are being generated, is it purely an east/ west filter of traffic across the Ladder?
Maybe a return of the Turnpike, as an outer London congestion zone during peak times, would work, (as it has for Central London.) Tolls like this exist in Melbourne because of chronic levels of traffic and the lack of investment with public transport across the country, not just Melbourne itself.
Ultimately the council will look at traffic flow, movement, and movement generators, to inform different systems that will attempt to address the need to reduce journeys.
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I walked down Burghley Rd on Tuesday night, to see how creating a pedestrian crossing at the end of Harringay Passage on Turnpike Lane would work. I started at the Little Green Bookshop, and passed the road intervention on Burghley Rd, it was actually a nice pedestrian walk that would take you to the heart of Wood Green.
The only disappointment was the two young trees between Brampton Park Road, and Burghley Rd that were up rooted and cut off at half mast, which need replacing on the pedestrianised area between these roads.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I think the idea of undoing the reconfiguration of the Turnpike Lane/Wightman Rd/Hornsey Park road junction would help a lot. It should be the same size as the one at Endymion Rd.
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Agreed, the Turnpike Lane junction with Wightman Road is a physical barrier for pedestrians, dividing communities, and is hostile and neglected.
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Permalink Reply by Grant on
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There's a similar scheme currently open for consultation on Broadwater Road:
https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/cycling/cs1-broadwater-road?cid=cs...
Prefer that one with its inclusion of greenery and permeability for bikes.
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Wow thanks for that, interesting reference to the De Beauvoir area, I'll have to check it out to see how they have gone about it.
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De Beauvoir was closed to through traffic 40 years ago after a vigorous campaign by local residents. Incredible, given how successful those closures are, that it has taken this long for Hackney Council to propose a similar scheme in London Fields.
I hear on the grapevine that the Broadwater Rd consultation needs more responses in favour...
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Burghley Rd Satelite image.
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